Tiffany turned around and took off. Unlike the past, her eyes were dry this time. Her tears had run their course when she was waiting for him to come home…
“—She’s not my mistress. She’s my dad’s!”
Tiffany’s heavy footsteps screeched to a halt. She definitely, positively, absolutely did not expect that.
She turned and faced Jackson with an expression of abject disbelief. Her first thought was that this was yet another lie, but to push his own father into the pyre would be a little too unscrupulous, even for him. That was not counting the fact that it sounded too downright ludicrous to be believed. Ironically, this meant that Jackson was telling the truth… right?
“Your dad’s mistress? Why would your dad’s mistress keep grinding herself on you, huh?” Tiffany questioned skeptically. “Why do you keep visiting her in her hotel? Why wouldn’t she take a five-star hotel's breakfast buffet instead of insisting that you personally deliver breakfast to her, which, holy sh*t, you actually did as she asked! And then there was that day in the mall; I spotted the two of you together! And that stupid fur coat she was wearing just now was bought on that day itself! Hell, you even pressed her to the door of the changing room — urgh, God knows if you were smooching her!”
Jackson was aggrieved by the very mention of that day. Yes, he had pressed Bernadette against the door, but it was not out of any smooching intent but an aborted desire to punch that woman in the face. Bernadette’s coup de maître was to plunge a knife into her enemy as she graced them with her sweetest smile, after all.
“Tiffie, I really don’t wanna talk about this. She…disgusts me. Before I can make this bane vanish, I can not let my mom know of her existence,” Jackson muttered.
Tiffany was still unconvinced. “Oh, I get it. You’re trying to keep me in some kinda suspense, aren’t you? You used to spend your time after work with me, but now it’s all squandered on that Bernadette. You really don’t think you owe me an explanation, do you? Christ, why are you the one who has to solve your daddy’s affair, huh? Do you even realize how much this whole debacle is harming the trust between us? Well, I ain’t gonna sit here and watch the thing between us die! If you insist on keeping your lips shut about this, then I’m gonna have to get answers straight from your dad’s mouth!”
Tiffany knew that provocation was the only way to loosen Jackson’s mouth enough for the whole truth to fall out. She was nearing a breakdown; the last thing she wanted was her man to stubbornly keep secrets from her.
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